Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict
Made by J Park
2/13/09
Can the teenagers of Israel and Palestine
today recover from the violence they
have faced all their lives?
I don’t think they could recover from all the violence. Because…
The conflict started really long ago, 1917. I don’t think people,
especially teenagers will recover a violent incident that is
happening for more than a 100 years. Firing rockets and air
strike everyday is their normal life, how would they recover
from it?
Start of The Everlasting Conflict
It started off by the Balfour Declaration of 1917. * Green part is
the Palestinian
It is the saying British government, that they land and light
green is Israel’s.
would make a home for Jewish people in
Palestine.
The tensions between the Arabs and the Jews
erupted into a physical violence. Like 1920
Palestine riots, the 1921 Palestine riots, the
1929 Hebron massacre and the 1936-1939 Arab
revolt in Palestine.
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In 1947, UN said that Palestine
should be divided into 2 parts. The
Jews approved but the Arabs
didn’t. So it broke into a civil war.
The five Arab leagues invaded
Israel and started 1948 Arab-Israeli
War.
Numerous Deaths/Injuries
Total 1376 people died in 2005~2008. 230 people were under 18.
7480 people were injured in 2005~2006. 878 people were under 18.
The most death was in the Great Arab Revolt through 1936~1939. Total is about
5400 death. (Including people under 18)
*The people in the
Death Injuries
(parenthesis) are the
Year
Palestinian Israelis Palestinian Israelis people under 18
years old.
2008 0 0 0 0
2007 396 (43) 13 (0) 1843 (265) 322 (3)
2006 678 (127) 25 (2) 3194 (470) 377 (7)
2005 216 (52) 48 (6) 1260 (129) 484 (4)
Total 1290 (222) 86 (8) 6297 (864) 1183 (14)
Death
Year
Palestinian Israelis
2004 828 (179) 108 (8)
2003 588 (119) 185 (21)
2002 1032 (157) 421 (47)
2001 469 (82) 191 (36)
2000 279 (83) 41 (0)
Total 1290 (222) 86 (8)
Catastrophic Damage
Israel closed all the schools in the south. The rockets fired constantly,
destroying three schools and a kindergarten in Israel. In Gaza, kids are used as
human shields. So more teenagers die in Palestine.
More damages are caused in Gaza, injuring innocent people. The Hamas are
hiding amongst people after shooting 8 missiles to Israel, to make Israel be
blamed by other countries for shooting innocent people.
Within hours of ceasefire, at least 18 missiles are fired to Israel. Made Israel to
air strike Gaza, causing both land badly destroyed and people injured.
Suffering Children/Citizens In Israel
Shalar Medioni is scared that the terrorist will come
any minute. "It is good to stay at home," she says, "I
prefer being here to going to the mall or something
like that." "I am afraid a terrorist will come or
something like this." said Shalar.
Merav Medioni, remembers the bombing when
childhood and feels more difficult with 3 children. "It
feels like Russian roulette now," said Merav.
She thinks that children’s mind are too much
affected with anxiety. "I explain to them to calm
down but then I wonder how can I tell them to calm
down when..." said Merav Medioni.
Tal Medioni plays computer games. She doesn’t
wants to think about the real world. She has a little
hope of peace in the future, because her friend’s
mom died. "It's terrible for the children to lose a
mother, because it is impossible to live without a
mother," she says. It feels like Russian roulette
now.
Merav Medioni, mother
Suffering Children/Citizens In Palestine
Students living in the border are scared. A teacher at the Smiha Khalil school
"I once had a nightmare that the Israeli travels two hours going to go to school.
soldiers came to school and sentenced Her difficulties are nothing compared to
everyone to death - the next day I one of her student’s. "Maybe a student
had a father or brother imprisoned or
didn't want to come to school," says
killed - she's not in a good mental state -
Samr Bargouti a 13-year-old girl.
all of that had an impact on
Most of the students directly concentration in the class not feeling
experienced the violence. The schools well - feeling down and depressed," she
near by the Israeli land has bullets on says.
walls. Many families also had one of A seven year old Mohammed plays football.
them captured or killed. People in West He looked really happy, but he says that
Bank has difficulty with meeting their once his home was hit by gunfire. "I think
family over the border. about the situation and how people are
dying because of the Jews," he says.
I once had a nightmare that the Israeli
soldiers came to school and sentenced
everyone to death
Pupil Samr Bargouti
About Habibi
Liyana is an Arab-American who lived
in St. Louise and moved to Jerusalem.
Everybody enjoys there, except for
Liyana who misses America and can’t
seem to settle in with all new cultural
stuff and relatives that she didn’t even
heard of.
She meets a guy called Omer, but he
turned out to be a Jewish. They are
friends secretly with only the family
members knowing it.
She lives happily in Israel with a new
friend and thinks there is nothing to
miss in America. But she wonders why
the Arabs, Jews can’t get along
together and always have wars.
According To Habibi…
Liyana recovers from the homesickness she had when
she first arrived at Jerusalem.
Maybe it is because she grew up in America, she
doesn’t get the rules and the traditional things in
Israel, and wonders why Arabs and Jews always fight.
She really thinks the fighting and the getting away
from each other as if they had cooties, is really wrong,
after all the violence she saw with her brother, Rafik.
Her family doesn’t mind and moves to Israel from West
Bank, where the Jews are. So does Liyana, but she still
thinks about the violence they saw.
She meets a friend called Omer, but they were afraid
that they will get caught by people. Jews and Arabs
are not allowed to get along together.
I think the teenagers may recover just temporarily,
but the violent memory is still left in their mind.
Never gone. It is like a silent bomb. Where a person
panics when there is a bomb, but if it doesn’t
explode, they will forget it for a moment but when it
explodes, they realizes that the bomb was there the
Conclusion
We could see that Jews and Palestinians are both scared of each other.
There are many innocent people that are being killed because of some
organizations.
Also by looking at the start of the conflict, it is all about fighting over
land. Is this much sacrifice worth all this?
British government is the one that gave the land to the Jews. They
thought they were doing everything right. But now the land is filled
with suffering, and injured people.
Many of the kids in Israel and Palestine are seeing things that they are
not suppose to see, and experience.
I think just fighting over hatred is a dumb thing to do. In this
situation, Israel is impossible to win in a war. So Palestinians should
think of more political way to solve this problem.
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